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Singers are definitely getting their due in Bollywood. I feel that music composers, on the other hand, tend to lose out on the popularity, fame, and success that singers usually enjoy.

~Armaan Malik

Topics: Bollywood Composers Definitely Due Enjoy Fame Feel Getting Hand Lose Music Other Out Popularity Singers Success Tend I Feel

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I think that live shows are more important for singers than composers, because composers still get a lot of recognition as compared to a singer.

~Armaan Malik

Topics: Because Compared Composers Get Important Live Live Shows Lot More Recognition Shows Singer Singers Still Than Think I Think

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My mother took me to Venice one time and showed me all the houses where famous composers used to live. It gave me a fascination for music and the city, but also for architecture. It was a valuable lesson.

~Ben Van Berkel

Topics: Also Architecture City Composers Famous Fascination Gave Houses Lesson Live Me Mother Music One Time Time Took Used Valuable Venice Where

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There's a higher place that I have no illusions about reaching. There's a sophistication and aesthetic about composers who only write only for the music's sake.

~Bill Conti

Topics: About Aesthetic Composers Higher Illusions Music Only Place Reaching Sake Sophistication Who Write

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We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.

~Brian Eno

Topics: Background Composers Experience Find Increasingly Likely Modern Music Musical Our Ourselves Places Represent Spaces Thought Which Write

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I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.

~Brian Eno

Topics: Composers Could First Got Heard Idea Interested Itself Like Make Mid Music Playing Really Sense Started Tape Terry 1960S

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With recording, everything changed. The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture. It's an idea that many composers have felt reluctant about because it seemed to them to diminish the importance of music.

~Brian Eno

Topics: About Because Being Changed Composers Could Diminish Everything Felt Furniture Idea Importance Many Meant Music Part Place Prospect Recording Reluctant Seemed Start Them Think Time

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Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.

~Brian Ferneyhough

Topics: Argue Centuries Composers Dialogue Often Other Over Several Span

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Other composers have taken this particular technique much further than I in the meantime, with the result that the Law of Diminishing Returns has begun to apply.

~Brian Ferneyhough

Topics: Apply Begun Composers Diminishing Further Law Meantime Much Other Particular Result Returns Taken Technique Than

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The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics.

~Brian Ferneyhough

Topics: About Accumulate Both Came Canon Composers Depended Livelihood Merely Musical Opposition Other Powers Ruling Western Whom

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